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Wellcome library History of Medicine collection

General Information

Name

Wellcome library History of Medicine collection

URL

http://catalogue.wellcome.ac.uk/search/Y

Description

Library Catalogue of the famous Wellcome Institute and its history of medicine collections, London, UK (over 80 000 volumes)

Keyword language

English

Remarks

Includes Wellcome bibliography of the history of medicine 1954 onwards (“Current work in the History of Medicine”)

 

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History of pharmacies in Berlin:

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